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Old 26-04-12, 14:56   #1485
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Rest assured, these two hours won't be a waste of time.
Some writers actually spend them drawing strange lines and arrows between names and numbered points on a scrap paper, some others picture the whole scene, spend as much time as they could (/feel necessary,) perfecting it (in their heads or most commonly, on a scrap paper too,) linking up the events and then taking some of them out. This will give the reader the opportunity to evolve into the story as if he was a platforme game character, where he has pillars aligned that he'll have to jump on, (the void between each pillar and his neighbor being the parts that you remove.) And I'm trying to be one of them. This is where you have to play, choose which sentence is going to be the pillar, and which sentence is going to serve as the void.
The image is a bit bizarre but I hope you got the main idea. And trust me, the more you spend time on it, the better. And even if you'll have to take out 99% of it, that 1% would never exist otherwise.

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